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Open Access: A citizen’s guide to discovering who holds your info - and what s in there
Our community-driven platform Noteworthy shows you how access your personal information from both public bodies and private companies. By Ken Foxe Monday 28 Dec 2020, 11:30 AM Dec 28th 2020, 11:30 AM 16,927 Views 4 Comments
THE KEY TO making good decisions is having access to good information. The team at Noteworthy, the community-led investigative platform from TheJournal,
presents this four-part series which aims to give YOU the power to access data from public authorities on matters that impact on your life.
Today, we look at access to personal information.
Is this the first year we’ve really paid attention to the words of the Christmas songs we sing each year and noticed the one thing they all take for granted is togetherness?
Medical staff with qualifications can transfer from family to work visas
The Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) has added 4 new categories allowed to transfer from a residence permit to family residency visas (Article 22), then to a work permit (Article 18), after extensive study by specialists in the employment affairs sector, Al Qabas reported.
PAM clarified that the second-degree relatives of Kuwaitis in health professions who have received approval from the Ministry of Health, and those with educational qualifications to work in schools (faculty members), and students enrolled in Kuwaiti educational institutions who are first degree family members of a deceased family.
16th December 2020 - Emer Currie
Setting targets for remote jobs per county would help drive balanced regional development and regenerate local communities across the country, a Fine Gael senator has said.
Senator Emer Currie, Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Employment Affairs and Work/Life Balance, was speaking as a report from NUI Galway’s Whitaker Institute and the Western Development Commission (WDC), highlighted the potential benefits of remote working, including improved productivity, greater labour market participation, reduced emissions and more balanced regional and rural development.
Senator Currie said: “With the recent increase in location-less or less location-dependent work, the Government’s forthcoming remote working strategy could benefit from measuring and setting targets for remote jobs in each local authority area. What gets measured gets done. We must set county targets for remote work or we will miss the opportunity given to us by COVID-19.
7 common forms of identity fraud
Updated / Tuesday, 15 Dec 2020
16:27
John Lowe of Money Doctors
While it sounds more Hollywood than a corner shop robbery, identity theft is much more widespread than any of us would like to think. It occurs when a criminal transfers or uses a person s identity illegally, generally in order to gain access to the victim’s finances, or to use their identity to set up a bogus bank account.
Even worse are the criminals involved in organised crime, who aim to use your identity and money for illegal activities such as drug and people trafficking. John Lowe of Money Doctors investigates.